Understanding Computers Day 1b

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LFS Lesson Plan
Unit EQ: How do computers make students or employees more productive
LEQ: What are the basic functions that a computer uses?
Activating Strategies: Ask students to tell you how a computer works?
Acceleration/Previewing/Vocabulary: Acceleration/Previewing/Vocabulary:
  • Input
    • Keyboard, mouse, scanner, microphone, touch pad, light pen, joystick, digital camera, video camera, game controller.
  • Memory
    • RAM, ROM, CD/DVD, Hardrive (internal, external, network), flash drives, portable; (SD, compact flash, memory stick}
  • Process
    • microprocessor
  • Output
    • monitor, printer, speakers, CNC
Teaching Strategies and Distributed Guided Practice/Summarizing Prompts:
Show Part 1 . How a computer works.
Summarizing Strategies: see handout
give handout on Input-Process-Output-Storage, Have each row brainstorm a column.
Review all columns with Class